Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Personal empowerment is at the root of what makes it possible for us to achieve and to claim our fully deserved self-esteem. Efforts to diminish our power naturally diminish our sense of empowerment. The current efforts to keep certain citizens from voting, especially citizens of color and economically challenged citizens, is a step away or a half-step from limiting voting rights for LGBTQIA+ citizens. Empowerment SLAM! (Episode Art: photograph by Bill Westerhoff, used by permission)

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. Suicide. Covid isolation and tragedies have made life harder and harder for more than a few who ultimately obeyed the suicide demons. Plan now never to let the demons convince you to do the same. (Episode Art: photo by Dan Meyer, used with permission)

Life Coaching. LGBTQIA+ Affirming. If life gives you lemons, don’t try to make lemonade with the lemons that caused you pain or discomfort or confusion. Use the lemons for something else. Lemonade lemons will come along at another time. Episode Art: “Still Life with Lemons in a Wicker Basket,” Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649), The National Gallery, London, public domain